Watching the SEC get whacked by the Big 10 today just makes me even more angry we are not in the title game...the entire reason florida made the game even though they had so many close calls is because their conference is supposed to be so much better than the big 10,,,what a joke, osu is going to beat them by as many as sweatervest feels like putting up.

Michigan football is going on a downhill stretch. Could you imagine Coach Carr losing the last two games of the season for so many years? When will it end? He will end up like John Cooper at that school down south. We lose recruits. We lose games. Michigan football needs a new direction.

So what I've been saying about your 'vaunted' defense is being proven tru again. Overrated. Front seven is pretty good. Above average definitely but a weak secondary and occasional big play lapses by the front seven are a HUGE problem. As a coolege football fan I'm glad you didn't get to play OSU again in the title game. As a Buckeye fan I'd love it!:-) I don't believe we've ever beaten you guys twice in a year?!

haha 'grass' I love it. On MGBLOG the comments are blaming the refs. I think both are funny considering blue is getting outplayed and outcoached. But oh well.... Might as well use the same ones you guys used against the Bucks! Everything but the other team is better.

Just some thoughts: Henne took every single snap from under center, I know we have at least one play in a shotgun formation, especially after the first five sacks. You have to do something different than just say, we just gotta block better.

We still ran the 4-3 well into the 4th quarter. Yep, we had that run covered, oh wait, they only ran the ball 3 times in the second half.

lol cant say i didnt see this commin. Not the loss... i expected michigan to win, but i knew that if they lost there would be like 15 kids on here yellin "fire Carr." Its pathetic, he goes 11-2 and u bitch? Seriously get your act together, ur not a fan if ur constantly bitchin about the coach, ur just a hater

I love watching U-M play usually, but not today. Pete Carroll made Michigan look silly today. Props to USC. I think U-M needs to recruit more speedy players or something, they just looked slow today. Maybe it was the time off? But they seemed fast compared to ND, which isn't much of an accomplishment..looking back on it now. Well, I guess there's next year, but I just don't know.

First of all, you have a great team Michigan. You lost to two very, very good teams this year. But I must say that I was pulling my hair out at the lack of in-game adjustments today against an effective USC scheme. Not until late in the game (too late) did the offensive coaches go to spreading the speedy Trojans out, and hitting them with quick passes or shotgun formations. Henne had his back to a mad rush all day--no wonder he got sacked time and again. What is going on with your coaching? Your team, your tradition deserves better. There were two great teams on display today. But only one set of great coaches--the USC ones.

I just happy they didn't win, we would have heard for the next 10 years about how they were the best team in the nation and they got robbed by the BCS..Good thing we don't have to hear all that BS. Thanks to USC.

"Oh Yeah", you don't know what you are talking about. The interview was asking Hart if he was coming back next year and his rationale for doing so. Clearly he wants another shot at beating OSU. This isn't contrary to anything Yost posts about. If Michigan had beaten OSU 5/6 years and Hart said he wanted to come back and beat OSU when asked about the current USC game, that would be a different story, but that isn't what happened.

It has everything to do with what Yost posts about. He CONSTANTLY says that OSU is more focused on Mich than on themselves. (Which is ridiculous.) Just proved to me today that OSU is on Mich's mind just as much.

SC made the adjustment in the passing game first. Carr took too long to decide to open up the vertical game. Still, it’s hard to blame the coach for this one. He wasn’t losing the battle in the trenches nor was he making mistakes in the secondary.

The Henne pick was a terrible decision in a moment of panic. Reminds me of what Booty was doing earlier in the season (see ND game).

A few missed deep balls and the interception aside, Chad had a pretty good game considering he was hounded all day long.

Booty and Trojan offensive coordinator Lane Kiffen went a long way in silencing their critics.

Jarrett, with his extraordinary talent and childish antics, is as good as gone.

It was Carroll at his finest seeing him go for the jugular instead of play it safe. Up two scores with less than 8 minutes to go in the game: 26 yard pass, 29 yard pass, 23 yard pass, 7-yard TD pass. Wow.

To all the Anon responders who have left their eloquent football analyses...time to get off the computer and let your sister do her homework. ie, shut up.

The regular football fans on this site have yet to post and I will bet you that none of us will 'whine' or make excuses.The cold hard plain truth is that Michigan was out-coached and out-played. Period. And all the tOSU fans out there should be worried, because if THIS is what the team who almost beat you looks like..be very afraid.

The problem today?? And perhaps in general??There are many---1) No ability to adjust the offensive scheme. Wisco was able to ditch the run and pass all day to beat Arkansas. Where the F was our shot-gun formation?? or short screens???? or 3-step drops??? 2) Morgan Trent and the rest of the DBs are unable to understand their defensive scheme or make adjustments and cover. Let alone just plain run. How does the USC guy come off the line and drag alllll the way across the endzone uncovered???? WTF3) The coaching staff is stuck in the 1990s. NO mobility of our QB. Booty rolls out every f'n play. Chad? 7 step drop waiting waiting sacked....pathetic. you can't establish an effective run getting sacked every series.4) Lloyd will never get fired, but dammit the scheme has GOT to change. We live and die by the run, which is great if you have a mobile QB who can make the throws that then force the defense off the line. We need to recruit different types of players.....And the offense has GOT to be more inventive and FASTER>>>> Booty was successful because he had 3 step drops all night long. Chad? LEAD BOOTS.

I could go on, but the proof is in the performance. Very disappointing.

And for all you tOSU 'fans' out there, stop your freaking gloating becuz you have yet to play. I hope that the tOSU team Michigan played back in November is the real deal, otherwise we are all going to have a lot of 'splainin' to do.

great analysis titleix - yes, tOSU might get beat but it will not be because they were outcoached! And it will not be because they have slow linemen, a QB in cement boots who refuses to throw the ball away, and a mouthy tailback who ought to pay attention to the game at heand instead of dreaming (yes, dreaming) of a national championship. If the Buckeyes get only above average QB play next year, they will win in AA.... again!

titleix~piss on your analysis...happy feet Henne's gone...Carr is on the way out~ yes he's history, can't play with the big dogs, can't make offensive adjustments in big games, can't keep blowHART's mouth shut, can't control Arrington (remember the shoving match against OSU 2nd quarter that pissed off the Bucks just enough)..Carr can't recruit Heismens from Ohio anymore. It may be hard to swallow but it will take years for this program to rebound. screw the bucknut bloggers but we need to make changes now. and one more thing that game against OSU wasn't that close as we'd like to believe. Yes we should have won this game tonight against a mediocre Trojan team but it won't get any better next year regardless who returns with the staff we have now.

If Carr cared about the program, he'd retire. It's time. I agree with T9--the coaching is stuck in the '90s. If he did go now, he could still do so with some dignity. If this trend continues (choking in the big games), that won't be the case...

Man, Carr's gotta go before he does permanent damage to the football program. At what point does losing to OSU and losing a bowl game EVERY YEAR start to effect recruiting?

Did the team even practice in December? Did they watch game film? Because offensively, we had no clue. Is Lloyd Carr even capable of putting together an actual game plan and/or making in-game adjustments?

This team seems to have 3 running plays and 4 passing plays. That's it. We are so talented and so limited by boring, conservative play-calling. Carr and the coaching staff need to learn from this. It's not 1973 - these teams have speed and we need to use it.

Let me first start by saying good game to the USC program.They obviously did their homework unlike us.But hell when you run, run, pass and punt who the $#@* could not beat us.We were lucky to have that 11-1 record in my eyes. Next year will show that if some serious changes don't get made on the play calling.

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